Today is the first day in quite a while that Citigroup wasn’t the most actively traded option contract. The top ten most active traded contracts today are in order below:
- Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) August 16 Call Options
- PowerShares QQQ (NASDAQ:QQQQ) August 40 Call Options
- Ford (NYSE:F) January 2011 2.50 Put Options
- Bank of America August 15 Call Options
- Citigroup (NYSE:C) August 3 Call Options
- Bank of America August 14 Call Option
- Bank of America August 15 Put Option
- SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) August 100 Call Option
- Citigroup August 5 Put Option
- SPDR S&P 500 August 99 Put Option
Earlier in the A.M., I was selling the August 15 strike calls on Bank of America, but purchased them back before close as I “banked” 37% of the premium.